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Entering the final event of the day – the 400-yard free relay – the Manteca boys needed a win in that final event to claim the Valley Oak League team championship. After three legs of the relay the Buffaloes were trailing by at least four seconds with freshman Matt Trejo waiting to swim the final 100 yards.

RIPON - Ripon Christian loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh inning with no outs Thursday and managed to get two runs across, but the seven errors the Knights committed put themselves in too much of a hole as Orestimba went home with a 4-2 Southern League victory.

LATHROP - Manteca was like all the other boys volleyball teams in the Valley Oak League at the start of the season; a ragtag group of athletes - some standouts in other sports - trying something new for the fun of it.